Email is a great tool used to communicate with one another, however, with the added great benefits of email, also comes some drawbacks. Unfortnately, email is abused by people who spread viruses through attachments [1] and send unsolicited messages, commonly known as spam [2]; these are the two biggest problems we face with email today.
You can help protect yourself by:
- protecting your hardware and software by installing anti-virus software [3] (at no cost to you)
- finding out how to keep your anti-virus software up-to-date [4]
- learning how to determine which messages are hoaxes [5] and for phishing [6] purposes